Chapter Twenty-Five: The Little Girl and the Man in Black
The sun, in the end, has disappeared without a trace, from the necropolis to the city, there is a long distance, according to the speed of the small shadow, at this moment naturally can not see the neon of the city.
The Seven Cities are a strange interface, a complete blend of ancient civilization and modern science, and at night, the neon lights of the city are bright, but the country roads are rarely inhabited.
Rubbing her tired eyes, Xiaoying fixed her eyes and saw that the lanterns swaying not far away attracted every passer-by who was dazed in the night, she quickened her pace and ran to where, only to find that it was a simple country restaurant.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! β
Xiaoying rarely knocked on the door patiently for a while, and the door was obviously singing and dancing, but no one helped her open the door.
"Hey, may I ask anyone?" Xiaoying tried to raise her voice as much as possible, but the night was dark, and the scene inside and outside the house was completely different.
After waiting patiently for a while, the door still hadn't opened, Xiaoying frowned, and was about to reach out and push the door, but was stopped in time by an ethereal voice.
"No, there's a forbidden spell on the door!"
"You lie, just a random country restaurant, how can anyone know the forbidden spell." Shadow smiled contemptuously.
The forbidden spell is like summoning evil spirits, which makes people fearful, but the power it has always makes some smart people crazy.
It's just that forbidden spells are difficult to learn, summoning evil spirits requires gathering the grievances of tens of thousands of people, and practicing forbidden spells requires paying the most unaffordable treasures yourself.
"Don't you believe it? Then you say, what ordinary person would live in seclusion in the countryside? "There are many ordinary people in the Seven Cities who are hidden in the world, but no ordinary person has ever thought of living in seclusion in the countryside.
Because there has always been an unwritten rule in the Seven Cities, you don't have enough strength to protect yourself from living normally in the Seven Cities, so don't leave the protection of the Seven City Lords in a delusional way.
didn't have anything to refute, so Xiaoying had to change the subject: "Do we want to go in or not?" β
"It's not us, it's you!" The ethereal voice retorted sharply.
Although he had been watching her, the muddy place where he was far, far away from here, so far that at his speed, it would take more than half a year to get here, so the only one who really needed to go in was Xiaoying.
Hanging his hand in frustration, Xiaoying stared at the lantern above his head sadly, and gave birth to a trace of coolness for no reason.
"Squeak!"
Just when Xiaoying was thinking about whether to continue to advance towards the Netherworld, the door was suddenly opened, and the warmth in the room rushed to the face, and before Xiaoying could react, the door closed again, only a girl carved in pink and jade, with watery teary eyes, sobbing for a while.
"No, could the people in this restaurant abuse children?" Secretly suspicious in her heart, Xiaoying instinctively squatted down and looked at the girl.
"Ahem, little sister, you...... Why are you crying? "What a fake, so hypocritical! When she was a little shadow god, she was going to act with a child?
"You're crying!" Glancing at Xiaoying angrily, the little girl turned around and threw Xiaoying a lonely back.
Scratching her hair blankly, Xiaoying looked at the girl's back at a loss, for three years, all around her were the charms and ghosts who had experienced the life before and after, their maturity set off Xiaoying's naivety, and now, in the face of a really innocent child, Xiaoying really didn't know how to deal with it.
I wanted to ask the person in the turbidity, but after thinking about it, the person who was seriously injured must not have a good temper, don't let the child coax him at that time, and he will also burst like thunder.
The little girl cried for a while, Xu was tired of crying, but Xiaoying just stood stiffly, and never stepped forward to comfort, she had to wipe her tears with the back of her hand, pouted her red mouth, and turned around unceremoniously to accuse Xiaoying: "Are you an adult, don't you know how to coax when you see a child crying?" β
"I ......" was accused by a child for the first time, and Xiaoying was speechless for a while.
Seeing that Xiaoying's thinking was chaotic at the moment, the little girl winked at her mischievously, and her slightly upturned pretty face looked extraordinarily temperamental under the illumination of the hazy light.
She shouldn't be an ordinary child, Xiaoying thought.
The character in the muddy place couldn't help but laugh, and before Xiaoying asked him why he was laughing, he didn't forget to explain: "Look at her dress, words and deeds, fools know that she is not an ordinary child." β
"Are you calling me a fool?" Xiaoying frowned, she was sometimes too lazy to think about it, but she wasn't stupid!
"Don't dare." Holding back a laugh, the ethereal voice deliberately pretended to be a serious answer.
I don't know where he is, and some things have to rely on him, even if Xiaoying is angry, she has to endure it.
Xiaoying's constantly changing expression aroused the curiosity of the little girl, and seeing that she seemed to be talking to someone else, the little girl boldly ran to her, reached out on tiptoe and pinched her face.
Attacked for no reason, Xiaoying instinctively waved her hand away and slapped the little girl's hand, and when the hands of the two of them touched each other, a startling sound came from somewhere.
Xiaoying and the little girl glanced at each other, tacitly retreated, and when they stabilized their bodies, a man in black appeared where they were standing.
"Who are you?" Without waiting for Xiaoying to speak, the little girl hurriedly asked.
Knowing her strength, Xiaoying was naturally happy to let the little girl take the lead, but the answer of the man in black made her frown: "I've been following you, don't you know me?" β
"There are more people behind me, which onion are you?" The little girl politely retorted.
Xiaoying twitched the corners of her mouth, and suddenly regretted letting the little girl speak first, after all, this little girl's words are really annoying enough.
"The others who followed you have been dealt with by me, which one do you think I am?" The man in black smiled wickedly.
Because of the package in black clothes and the darkness of the night, Xiaoying could only vaguely see the outline of his figure, and when he actually drew his weapon, Xiaoying noticed something unusual.
"Be careful!" Knowing that it was best not to make any moves at this time, Xiaoying still involuntarily ran towards the little girl.
Holding the little girl tightly and dodging to the side, the pain of the sharp blade cutting through the arm instantly spread all over the body, gritting his teeth in annoyance, Xiaoying pushed the little girl away before the man in black made another move: "Hurry up." β
"If I don't leave, he will kill the man who is with me, and I will kill him." The little girl snorted coldly unappreciatively.
Taking a deep breath of cold air, Xiaoying really wanted to do something for the man in black and solve this troublesome little girl, but she was angry, she had already done it before, so she still saved people to the end and sent the Buddha to the west.
"If you don't leave now, you won't be able to leave later."
"Hehe, I think it's better for none of you to go." didn't give Xiaoying a chance to persuade the little girl, and the man in black attacked directly.
After dodging a few times in a hurry, Xiaoying instinctively formed the handprint of the sealing spell, but she only got up, and the ethereal voice shouted, "Don't!" β
No, no, no! Xiaoying roared in her heart, what is in front of her now, but the real killing blade, if she doesn't resist, she won't have to incense her today next year.
"Before, you used up most of the mana in your body when you sealed the confusion, and with your current magic power, it is not enough to seal the man in black at all, if you are eaten by the sealing spell, you are likely to be the same as the confusion."
"How so?" Xiaoying tragically withdrew his hand and gave up the seal.
Because of this gap, the weapon of the man in black had already moved closer, and Xiaoying saw that it was a knife, a slender knife.
Xiaoying froze in place, she felt that this knife was very familiar, just like the sword of the Zero Clan Patriarch, familiar as if she had actually suffered its danger.
"Bell~"
The sound of metal colliding shook Xiaoying's senses, and instinctively retreated to the little girl's side, and Xiaoying dared to look up to see who had saved her.
But she forgot that there was only one country restaurant here, and there was laughter and laughter in the house, who would care about their life or death, and the book of the dead that had been carried in her arms like a treasure had taken the initiative to protect the lord more than once.
"Is this book yours? That's good. The little girl was amazed.
Raising his head proudly, Xiaoying just wanted to brag, but the man in black asked coldly, "Are you Xiaoying?" β
"yes, how ......"
"Bang!"
Without waiting for Xiaoying to finish speaking, the man in black withdrew his weapon and threw out a pill between his sleeves, and the white smoke instantly confused Xiaoying and the little girl's eyes.
When the white smoke completely cleared, the man in black had long since disappeared, Xiaoying scratched his head suspiciously, not understanding what was wrong with his name, and he could scare the man in black away.
"I'll borrow this book for fun first." Jumping up and grabbing the hanging book of the dead, the little girl shouted at Xiaoying and turned around and ran.
has always regarded the Book of the Dead as his own treasure, Xiaoying naturally couldn't be "borrowed" by the little girl like this, and no matter where the man in black fled, he stumbled and chased the little girl out of here.
Just after their figures were swallowed up by the night, the man in black went and returned, the only eyes that were exposed flashed with a complicated look, and he sighed faintly, he turned around and was about to chase the two of them, but was surprised to find that a gossip array appeared in the place where the Book of the Dead was previously suspended.
"This is ......" showed a shocked look on his face wrapped in black.
The two spells that the diviner is proud of have always occupied a unique position in the Seven Cities, but the man in black has been wandering around the Seven Cities for so long, and this is the first time he has seen that there is a divination master who can activate the divination spell from a distance with just one weapon.
"What are you still doing in a daze, let's go!" Suddenly, there was a shout from the night, and the man in black turned around and quickly disappeared into the night.
The moment he disappeared, the gossip array disappeared at the same time, and the little girl who was holding the book of the dead noticed the light on the book, and her big watery eyes immediately became engrossed.
It was only when she paid attention to it, and the light on the Book of the Dead dimmed in vain, leaving a neat line of the book emptyβto return the book to its owner!
With a pouting mouth, the little girl stopped consciously bored, and obediently waited for the little shadow who was thrown far away by her.